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| He's losing his grip on the Republican Party. |
The Republicans got embarrassed.
The conservative media was pissed off at the Republican Party for supporting the bipartisan bill that allowed the government shutdown to end and raise the debt ceiling without any concessions.
After all the fuss, the Republicans ended up with nothing and of course, King Hippo is livid.
President Barack Obama spoke to the press today and told the American people to avoid the rabble rousing of talk radio, the internet blogs, lobbyists and carnival barkers.
In other words, the president singled out King Hippo, Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), That Guy Who Helped Obama Win, Palin Da Ass, Karl Rove, and That Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall as the reasons to why Republicans are losing.
This has to be one of the many 11th hour moves by the inept Congress. They passed a bipartisan budget bill to starve off an international recession. This bipartisan bill will last for six months. It will fund the government until January 2014 and the debt ceiling until February 2014.
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY, Minority Leader) and 26 Republican senators joined the 52 Democrats and two independents in passing this. The 19 senators who voted against it included some familiar faces.
Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), Dean Heller (R-NV), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Jim Risch (R-ID), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Rand Paul (R-KY), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX) and David Vitter (R-LA).
Republicans who wanted to repeal Obamacare were desperate for a victory and it didn't come to fruition.
So now what do they do next? They complain even more.
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| Stallmigos Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX). |
So the Republicans have done everything they can to try to make everybody like them, and what they've ended up doing is creating one of the greatest political disasters I've ever seen in my lifetime, simply because they failed to show up. Then when they finally did make a play of showing up, they didn't have the guts to stick with it. Undertake a partial government shutdown. Let's call it a slowdown. Undertake 87% shutdown the federal government for two weeks, and the endgame is that Dingy Harry gets to write the continuing resolution and the debt limit expansion and extension. And then after that two and a half weeks, all of it, the Democrat side, the Republican side blamed on Ted Cruz.
One guy did all this. One guy created all this havoc, one guy. If this one guy woulda shut up and never said anything, why, we'd be what? In fat city? So the Republican establishment, the Democrat establishment, there is a full-out now -- I want to warn you about this because, folks, we're gonna have to hang tough. You may think I'm crazy here. We're gonna have to remain as best we can detached from that mess and stay bucked up, optimistic, of good cheer as best we can because there is an all-out assault now, not just on Cruz and Lee, and not just on the Tea Party, but on the conservative wing of the party. It isn't new. We've spoken of it on many previous occasions. But now they're being fortified because now they all think they've got all the ammo they need, and that is this last two and a half weeks was brought about strictly by the Tea Party.
The Republicans have been hoodwinked. There are two things that have happened. A, they are literally paralyzed because Obama is African-American. They are literally paralyzed. Before that happened, the Democrats and the media ran one of the most brilliant political tricks I have ever seen pulled off. That political trick convinced Republicans, and, more importantly, their brilliant moderate consultants, that criticizing any Democrat president would anger the independents. Remember that? Because the independents, God bless the independents, oh, my God, folks, the princes and the princesses of our culture. The moderate independents, the only reasonable people out there. The only open-minded, nonbigoted, nonclosed-minded human beings in America.
You don't have a prayer of winning if you succeed in driving your base out. This is not the time to abandon Ted Cruz or Mike Lee, folks. I'm not talking about sending the money, and I'm not talking about anything traditional. I'm just talking about in your hearts and in your minds, 'cause you know they're right.
Whatever the Republican Party is today is because the Wizards of Smart that run it are not the conservatives. They're the ones who have authored this. It's their signature on all of this, and they are -- like a lot of other children, lot of like other victims -- blaming everybody else. That's where we are. But the opportunity here, I still like it, as I finish my thought. I was thinking, you know, yesterday I said -- and this is picked up a couple places, and I knew it would be.
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